A flight stick that slides across the desk mid-manoeuvre is a flight stick you cannot trust. The VelocityOne Universal Sim Mount is a steel clamp built to end that: three plates of rugged 3/16 inch steel, a desk clamp that takes tops up to 50mm, and over 230mm of vertical or horizontal adjustment to put the control where your hand actually sits.

It is deliberately not brand specific. As well as the VelocityOne range it takes flight sticks, throttles, racing shifters and handbrakes from Thrustmaster, Logitech and Saitek, Winwing, VKB, Virpil VPC, Virtual Fly and MOZA. It also bolts to aluminium extrusion rigs, so it moves from a desk setup to a cockpit without being replaced.

Assembly is three plates and the supplied hardware, and there is an integrated mousepad that attaches to the plate to keep a mouse off a crowded desk. The rest of the hardware mount collection covers rig-specific brackets if you need something more permanent.